I'm going to break all the rules. I'm not interested in hits and rankings.
This BLOG is for me - nothing more, nothing less.
The narrowboat Willawaw is setting off on a journey, physical and spiritual.
If you want to come along, hop on, "let go fore and aft" and welcome aboard...........
If you don't, I'll miss you....

Sunday, 14 June 2009

Trinity Marina - See No Boats; Hear No Boats; Hit No Boats

Passing Trinity Marina on the Ashby at Hinkley, (the marina is a grey and dour place, as well as wanting £5 a night for online moorings), we were struck by how many boaters just leave the marina basin without looking. Well, yes, we were nearly struck, quite literally.

We had a narrowboat pull out on us.

We could see him and he could see us. Well he would if he had been looking up.He pulled straight out of the marina into the canal without slowing or sounding his horn.

There was no real problem in that I was going slow and was able to go astern and hold my position.

He suddenly realised that I was there and put on power to swing round in front of me.

I never even got a sorry. Just a sh*t eating grin as if to say, I'm more important than you, so you should have waited.

What is it with some people ?

Reminds me of the old joke about a young man in a Porsche Carrera sports car.

An older man in a battered old Ford was trying, slowly, to back into a space between two parked cars.

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Why are blogs so popular - they have spread like dandelions on a grassy verge, but some are as dull as ditchwater.

I often subscribe to their updates because they look promising, only to be regaled with daily tales of "got up, looked out of the window and cleaned my teeth".

Ely - its quite appropriate that the Revelation and the start of the journey should occur in the Fenland city of Ely - in the shadow of the "Ship of the Fens", a name often used to describe its gothic cathedral.